STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Days ahead of the start of the fall semester at Penn State University, 148 students have already tested positive for COVID-19 and school officials are awaiting results from over 5,000 more tests.
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And an additional 7,000 tests haven’t even been submitted yet.
University officials said at least 1% of students, faculty and staff would be randomly tested each day as part of the plan to monitor the spread of coronavirus.
According to a news release, 17,042 students from “areas with a high prevalence of coronavirus” were required to be tested before classes started. Students who have tested positive were told to stay at home to isolate for 10 days and until they could be cleared by a medical professional before returning to the main campus in State College.
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